CEVALOR, VALORPEDRA and ASSIMAGRA are the sponsors of buyinportugal.pt, the new B2B commerce platform in Portugal, which is due to start operating in January 2017 and defines itself as a meeting point for buying and selling natural stone.

The European Ecommerce & Omnichannel Association has a new member. It announced ARMO, the Association of Romanian Online Stores, has joined the pan-European ecommerce association. Romania is now the 17th country to have an ecommerce association joining EMOTA.

In Spain, more than half a million people shopped fashion online during the month of July this year. An average order of clothing and accessories was worth 57 euros. Especially, Zara was a popular shopping destination, followed by Asos and Zalando.

Since 2009, it has been touted by e-commerce company Alibaba as a 24-hour shopping day on which you’ll find thousands of international and local brands offering discounts on the firm’s marketplace and online stores.

A recent study of over 2,400 consumers across the U.K., France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany highlights the considerable importance of return policies for online consumer behavior in Europe.

In the online realm, Nordic consumers largely prefer to use credit cards and online banking e-payments which let them pay directly from their bank account using their familiar online banking login details.